Iran's incumbent President Hassan Rouhani and cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who heads the Astan Quds Razavi autonomous charitable foundation, are the main contenders at the upcoming presidential election, with inflation and unemployment expected to be the

In the follow-up to the recently released documentary “Zero Days” by Alex Gribney on the Stuxnet worm, a “terrifying and groundbreaking virus jointly created by the US and Israel against Iranian nuclear technologies,” one Iranian expert on regional security reassured Sputnik that the virus no longer poses a threat to his home country.

Alex Gribney’s recent documentary “Zero Days” lays the story of the Stuxnet worm, a computer virus which was created by branches of the CIA and Mossad to cripple Iranian nuclear plants.

The story provides many fascinating details on how the virus got into the relevant networks, what it actually did when it got there, how it was discovered (and whose fault that was) and the fact that no one in the United States or Israel has ever acknowledged its existence.

The work of Iranian blogger and international affairs analyst Mani Mehrabi, known inside Iran for his commentaries on the counter-terrorism operation in Syria, has not gone unnoticed by the jihadists. The official website of the Nusra Front has announced a manhunt .on the political scientist; he responded by vowing to continue his work

A regular commentator for Sputnik Persian, Mehrabi gave the Sputnik affiliate his thoughts on the jihadists' declaration.